Sentences with phrase «for gradualism»

But within these nodes, there is plenty of time for gradualism.

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Chad has repeatedly betrayed: his non-comprehension of what a species - level change is (i.e. the focus of PE) and that this most minor of changes does not require a wholesale reordering of a genome; his inability to grasp that gradualism, although the clear minority in the fossil record, is present in various lineages (See Gould's various references to Foraminfera); his non-comprehension of the role of historic genetic contingency (i.e. that silent mutations can coalesce into rather dramatic novel functionality, e.g. Lenskis» E. coli); that the nodes of PE are more than sufficient for the requisite species - level evolutionary changes (See Pod Mrcaru lizards); etc, etc..

Within these nodes is plenty of time for Darwin's gradualism to manifest, but still too rapid (in the context of geologic time) to be captured in the fossil record.

Lastly, your quote mine only suggests that Darwinian gradualism has lost favor (for example, its general displacement at the species level by PE).

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

The acceptance of punctuated equilibrium put to death the then prevailing thought that gradual change was the evolutionary mechanism of speciation (Darwinian phyletic gradualism, which had held sway for > 100 years, was utterly debunked)

Thus Lyell's gradualism continued to prevail, and catastrophic change stayed taboo for most of the 20th century.

For individuals with moderate to severe cases, a SIBO diet often begins with an elemental liquid diet or an Ayurvedic gradualism diet.

In an era of catastrophic gradualism and lethal cowardice, Florida congressional candidate Tim Canova has taken a tremendously courageous stand for climate truth and justice in his call for a World War II - scale mobilization that eliminates net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and restores a safe climate.

Gradualism is for fearful thinkers.